What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?